[Users] Recover mail from a backup --- possible?

[Bret Busby]

On 21/4/22 8:28 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 21/4/22 8:20 am, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just now I (stupidly/clumsily) *deleted* an email from my inbox.  I'm
>> not even sure what it was, but I'd like to recover it, just in case it
>> was something important.  I'm pretty sure it was not a recent email;
>> i.e. it had been sitting around for some weeks, waiting for me to deal
>> with it.
>>
>> I have a *fairly* recent backup of my user files on an external drive.
>> I believe that the backup is more recent than the email that I am
>> trying to recover.  I can mount the external drive and look at
>> /home/rolf/.claws-mail in that backup. But then I get stuck.
>>
>> How do I actually get at the emails (copies of which I presume are
>> there *somewhere*)?  I have attached ("listing.txt") the results of
>> executing "ls" in /home/rolf/.claws-mail in the backup.
>>
>> I have looked in "imap.cache" (the mail account in question is an IMAP
>> account), but everything there seems "old" (most recent date is 3
>> January 2021 (!!!) whereas many files in the /home/rolf/.claws-mail
>> directory date from 8 April 2022.  (I did the backup on 9 April 2022.)
>>
>> So where do I go to look for emails that arrived in the weeks just prior
>> to 9 April 2022?  Or am I asking the impossible?
>>
>> If there is any further information that I could/should provide, please
>> tell me.  If you offer instructions, may I beseech you to couch them in
>> simple language?  I have some computer skills, but there are yawning
>> lacunae in my knowledge.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
>>
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> 
> How did you delete it?
> 
> Unless you used <SHIFT><DELETE>, it should simply have been transferred 
> to the Deleted bin - see the pane at the left, that displays a list of 
> the folders.
> 
> Click on the Deleted bin, and find whether it is in that folder.
> 

Sorry - the name of the folder, and, the bin, is "Trash", not "Deleted".

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Bret Busby
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